I use Debian on my desktop computer,I have been exclusively using Debian for 4 years now, and never found it hard to install or configure.I use a mix of free and non-free software, and have made those choices to fully make use of the abilities of my hardware and video card (Nvidia).Which is the main reason for using linux and Debian, I can exercise my right to choose what I want to run and when I want to run it on my computer.Debian actually is (despite what people think ) very easy to configure and works with multimedia very well.

"What we have is non-living, but we've been able to show that it has some life-like properties, and that was extremely interesting"--Sounds like my last sex partner!

unfortunately parts of me have been dead for a few years now

If Microsoft buys Yahoo I'll be one of the users that will leave for good.I've had an account at yahoo for years-my isp is partnered with them (Rogers in Canada). Microsoft will screw it up just like they did with Hotmail. Plus what about the open-source projects and developers at Yahoo? I can imagine they'll run like hell too.